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Sheldon Brown's content is great, but is it ironic that the first thing you see on his site is a Google banner ad? Understandably, he'd like to earn money on h
by tty456 7mo ago
Sheldon Brown's content is great, but is it ironic that the first thing you see on his site is a Google banner ad?
Understandably, he'd like to earn money on his content and I see no problem with that. But for me to visit his site and have Google add yet another tracking event to their "interest pile" about me (I guess i'm in the market for bikes now?) is a bit off putting.
He can't be making more than a few bucks a month through that single ad, right?
- hamdingers 7mo agoI truly had no idea, I guess I've always had an ad blocker. He's been dead since 2008, so I assume the banner ad keeps the lights on in the absence of his income and input.
- casenmgreen 7mo agoHe died about ten years ago.
- salynchnew 7mo agoAs the author is dead, I'm sure the money goes towards site hosting fees.
- 47282847 7mo agoI assume nobody removed it and the revenue is just added to some Google Adsense balance sheet, and reports go to some Gmail account that will expire one day.